I threw Snatcher into my Saturn and began to play. I was sitting at my kotatsu with my DS prepped with Kanji Sonomama Rakubiki Jiten and JEDict ready to go on my iMac.
And I couldn’t help but wish there was an easier way.
Isn’t that ridiculous? I can take a hunk of plastic and scribble it on some device and look up Japanese characters within seconds. And I want to be able to do it with less effort. If I were to have played this game back when it was released, I’d probably have to spend hours digging through paper dictionaries to look up kanji I don’t know just to be able to figure out one word. I can do that within seconds now, but that’s not good enough for me.
I really need to just sit down and crank through some Japanese games again. I’ve been mingling through for the past weeks but I haven’t actually been doing anything constructive. I really do live in a technological paradise and yet I’m not getting motivated enough to make use of it. That’s a shame, and really almost a crime.
